0.14.0: 2020/12/11

This is the first version of silx supporting h5py >= v3.0.

This is the last version of silx officially supporting Python 3.5.

• silx.gui:

  • Added support for HDF5 external data (virtual and raw) (PR #3222)

  • Added lazy update handling of OpenGL textures (PR #3205)

  • Deprecated silx.gui.plot.matplotlib module (use silx.gui.utils.matplotlib instead) (PR #3158)

  • Improved memory allocation by using already defined fontMetrics instread of creating a new one (PR #3239)

  • Make TextFormatter compatible with h5py>=3 (PR #3253)

  • Fixed matplotlib 3.3.0rc1 deprecation warnings (PR #3145)

  • silx.gui.colors.Colormap:

    • Added Colormap.get|setNaNColor to change color used for NaN, fix different NaN displays for matplotlib/openGL backends (PR #3143)
    • Refactored PlotWidget OpenGL backend to enable extensions (PR #3147)
    • Fixed use of QThreadPool.tryTake to be Qt5.7 compliant (PR #3250)

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • Added the feature to compute statistics inside a specific region of interest (PR #3056)

    • Added an action to switch on/off OpenGL rendering on a plot (PR #3261)

    • Added test for ROI interaction mode (PR #3283)

    • Added saving of error bars when saving a plot (PR #3199)

    • Added ImageStack.clear (PR #3167)

    • Improved image profile tool to support PlotWidget item extension (PR #3150)

    • Improved Stackview: replaced setColormap autoscale argument by scaleColormapRangeToStack method (PR #3279)

    • Updated 3 stddev autoscale algorithm, clamp it with the minmax data in order to improve the contrast (PR #3284)

    • Updated ROI module: splitted into 3 modules base/common/arc_roi (PR #3283)

    • Fixed ColormapDialog custom range input (PR #3153)

    • Fixed issue when changing ROI mode while a ROI is being created (PR #3186)

    • Fixed RegionOfInterest refresh when highlighted (PR #3197)

    • Fixed arc roi shape: make sure start and end points are part of the shape (PR #3257)

    • Fixed issue in Colormap 3 stdev autoscale mode and avoided warnings (PR #3295)

    • Major improvements of PlotWidget:

      • Added get|setAxesMargins methods to control margin ratios around plot area (PR #3196)
      • Added PlotWidget.[get|set]Backend enabling switching backend (PR #3255)
      • Added multi interaction mode for ROIs (can be switched with a single click on an handle, or the context menu) (PR #3260)
      • Added polar interaction mode for arc ROI (PR #3260)
      • Added PlotWidget.sigDefaultContextMenu to allow to feed the default context menu (PR #3260)
      • Added context menu to the selected ROI to remove it (PR #3260)
      • Added pan interaction to ROI authoring (select-draw) interaction mode (PR #3291)
      • Added support of right axis label with OpenGL backend (PR #3293)
      • Added item visible bounds feature to PlotWidget items (PR #3223)
      • Added a DataItem base class for items having a "data extent" in the plot (PR #3212)
      • Added support for float16 texture in OpenGL backend (PR #3194)
      • Improved support of high-DPI screen in OpenGL backend (PR #3203)
      • Updated: Use points rather than pixels for marker size and line width with OpenGL backend (PR #3203)
      • Updated: Expose PlotWidget colors as Qt properties (PR #3269)
      • Fixed time serie axis for range < 2.5 microseconds (PR #3195)
      • Fixed initial size of OpenGL backend (PR #3209)
      • Fixed PlotWidget image items displayed below the grid by default (PR #3235)
      • Fixed OpenGL backend image display with sqrt colormap normalization (PR #3248)
      • Fixed support of shapes with multiple polygons in the OpenGL backend (PR #3259)
      • Fixes duplicated callback on ROIs (there was one for each ROI managed created on the plot) (PR #3260)
      • Fixed RegionOfInterest contains methods (PR #3336)

  • silx.gui.colors.plot3d:

    • Improved scene rendering (PR #3149)
    • Fixed handling of transparency of cut plane (PR #3204)

• silx.image:

  • Fixed slow image.tomography.get_next_power() (PR #3168)

• silx.io:

  • Added support for HDF5 link preservation in dictdump (PR #3224)
  • Added support for numpy arrays of numbers (PR #3251)
  • Make h5todict resilient to issues in the HDF5 file (PR #3162)

• silx.math:

  • Improved colormap performances for small datasets (PR #3282)

• silx.opencl:

  • Added textures availability check (PR #3273)
  • Added a warning when there is an issue in the Ocl destruction (PR #3280)
  • Fixed Sift test on modern GPU (PR #3262)

• Miscellaneous:

  • Added HDF5 strings: handle h5py 2.x and 3.x (PR #3240)
  • Fixed cython 3 compatibility and deprecation warning (PR #3164, #3189)

0.13.3b0: 2020/09/28

Bug fix version:

• silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Fixed time serie axis for range < 2.5 microseconds (PR #3195)
• Documentation: Updated changelog and version number (PR #3202)

0.13.2: 2020/09/15

Minor release:

• silx view application: Prevent collapsing browsing panel, Added -f command line option (PR #3176)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.data: Fixed DataViews.titleForSelection method (PR #3171).
  • silx.gui.plot.items: Added DATA_BOUNDS visualization parameter for Scatter item histogram bounds (PR #3180)
  • silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget: Fixed support of curves with infinite data (PR #3175)
  • silx.gui.utils.glutils: Fixed isOpenGLAvailable function (PR #3184)

• Documentation:

  • Update silx view command line options documentation (PR #3173)
  • Update version number and changelog (PR #3190)

0.13.1: 2020/07/22

Bug fix release:

• silx.gui.plot.dialog: Fixed ColormapDialog custom range input (PR #3155)
• Build: Fixed cython 3 compatibility (PR #3163).
• Documentation: Update version number and changelog (PR #3156)

0.13.0: 2020/06/23

This version drops the support of Python 2.7 and Python <= 3.4.

• silx view application:

  • Added support of compound data (PR #2948)
  • Added Close All menu (PR #2963)
  • Added default title to plots (PR #2979, #2999)
  • Added a button to enable/disable file content sorting (PR #3132)
  • Added support of a SILX_style HDF5 attribute to provide axes and colormap scale (PR #3092)
  • Improved HDF5TableView information table to make text selectable and ease copy (PR #2903)
  • Fixes (PR #2881, #2902, #3083)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.colors.Colormap:

    • Added mean+/-3std autoscale mode (PR #2877, #2900)
    • Added sqrt, arcsinh and gamma correction colormap normalizations (PR #3010, #3054, #3057, #3066, #3070, #3133)
    • Limit number of threads used for computing the colormap (PR #3073)
    • Reordered colormaps (PR #3137)

  • silx.gui.dialog.ColormapDialog: Improved widget (PR #2874, #2915, #2924, #2954, #3136)

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • Major rework/extension of the regions of interest (ROI) (PR #3007, #3008, #3018, #3020, #3022, #3026, #3029, #3044, #3045, #3055, #3059, #3074, #3076, #3078, #3079, #3081, #3131)

    • Major rework/extension of the profile tools (PR #2933, #2980, #2988, #3004, #3011, #3037, #3048, #3058, #3084, #3088, #3095, #3097)

    • Added silx.gui.plot.ImageStack widget (PR #2480)

    • Added support of scatter in PixelIntensitiesHistoAction (PR #3089, #3107)

    • Added auto update of FitAction fitted data and range (PR #2960, #2961, #2969, #2981)

    • Improved mask tools (PR #2986)

    • Fixed PlotWindow (PR #2965) and MaskToolsWidget (PR #3125)

    • silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget:

      • Changed behaviour of PlotWidget.addItem and PlotWidget.removeItem to handle object items (previous behavior deprecated, not removed) and added PlotWidget.addShape method to add Shape items (PR #2873, #2904, #2919, #2925, #3120)
      • Added support of uint16 RGBA images (PR #2889)
      • Improved interaction (PR #2909, #3014, #3033)
      • Fixed PlotWidget (PR #2884, #2901, #2970, #3002)
      • Fixed and cleaned-up backends (PR #2887, #2910, #2913, #2957, #2964, #2984, #2991, #3023, #3064, #3135)

    • silx.gui.plot.items:

      • Added sigDragStarted and sigDragFinished signals to marker items and sigEditingStarted and sigEditingFinished signals to region of interest items (PR #2754)
      • Added XAxisExtent and YAxisExtent items in silx.gui.plot.items to control the plot data extent (PR #2932)
      • Added ImageStack item (PR #2994)
      • Added Scatter item histogram visualization mode (PR #2912, #2923)
      • Added isDragged method to marker items (PR #3000)
      • Improved performance of colormapped items by caching data min/max (PR #2876, #2886)
      • Improved Scatter item regular grid (PR #2918) and irregular grid (PR #3108) visualizations

  • silx.gui.qt:

    • Changed behavior of QObject multiple-inheritance (PR #3052)
    • Limit silxGlobalThreadPool function to use 4 threads maximum (PR #3072)

  • silx.gui.utils.glutils: Added isOpenGLAvailable to check the availability of OpenGL (PR #2878)

  • silx.gui.widgets:

    • Added ElidedLabel widget (PR #3110, #3111)
    • Fixed LegendIconWidget (PR #3112)

• silx.io:

  • Added support of signal dataset name-based errors to NXdata (PR #2976)
  • Added dicttonx function and support of HDF5 attibutes in dicttoh5 function (PR #3013, #3017, #3031, #3093)
  • Fixed url.DataUrl.path (PR #2973)

• silx.opencl:

  • Fixed issue with Python 3.8 (PR #3036)
  • Disable textures for Nvidia Fermi GPUs for convolution (PR #3101)

• Miscellaneous:

  • Requires fabio >= 0.9 (PR #2937)
  • Fixed compatibility with h5py<v2.9 (PR #3024), cython 3 (PR #3034)
  • Avoid deprecation warnings (PR #3104) from Python 3.7 (PR #3012), Python 3.8 (PR #2891, #2934, #2989, #2993, #3127), h5py (PR #2854, #2893), matplotlib (PR #2890), fabio (PR #2930) and numpy (PR #3129)
  • Use numpy.errstate to ignore warnings rather than the warnings module (PR #2920)

• Build, documentation and tests:

  • Dropped Python2 support (PR #3119, #3140) and removed Python 2 tests and packaging (PR #2838, #2917)
  • Added debian 11/Ubuntu 20.04 packaging (PR #2875)
  • Improved test environment (PR #2870, #2949, #2995, #3009, #3061, #3086, #3087, #3122), documentation (PR #2872, #2894, #2937, #2987, #3042, #3053, #3068, #3091, #3103, #3115) and sample code (PR #2978, #3130, #3138)
  • Fixed Windows "fat binary" build (PR #2971)

v0.13.0 beta 2: 09/06/2020

First release candidate of v0.13.0

https://pypi.org/project/silx/0.13.0b2/

v0.13.0 beta 1: 29/05/2020

Merge pull request #3082 from silx-kit/vallsv-patch-1

Bump version to beta 1

v0.13.0 beta 0: 21/02/2020

• silx view application:

  • Improved HDF5TableView information table to make text selectable and ease copy (PR #2903)
  • Fixed expand/collapse tree actions (PR #2881)
  • Fixed display of chunk infomation (PR #2902)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.colors.Colormap: Added mean+/-3*std autscale mode (PR #2877, #2900)

  • silx.gui.utils.glutils: Added isOpenGLAvailable to check the availability of OpenGL (PR #2878)

  • silx.gui.dialog.ColormapDialog: Improved widget (PR #2874, #2915, #2924)

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • silx.gui.plot.PlotWidget:

      • Renamed PlotWidget.addItem to PlotWidget.addShape to add Shape items (PR #2873)
      • Change behavior of PlotWidget.addItem and PlotWidget.removeItem to handle object items (previous behavior deprecated, not removed) (PR #2904, #2919)
      • Added pan with middle button pressed (PR #2909)
      • Fixed avoid display of offset for axis ticks (PR #2884)
      • Fixed crosshair position offset with right axis on (PR #2901)
      • Fixed image picking inconsitency between backends (PR #2913)
      • Fixed image profile window position being reset each time data is updated (PR #2933)
      • Cleaned-up backends (PR #2887, #2910)

    • silx.gui.plot.items:

      • Added sigDragStarted and sigDragFinished signals to marker items and sigEditingStarted and sigEditingFinished signals to region of interest items (PR #2754)
      • Added XAxisExtent and YAxisExtent items in silx.gui.plot.items to control the plot data extent (PR #2932)
      • Improved performance of colormapped items by caching data min/max (PR #2876, #2886)
      • Improved Scatter item regular grid visualization to be more resilient (PR #2918)

• Miscellaneous:

  • Requires fabio >= 0.9 (PR #2937)
  • Avoid deprecation warnings from Python 3.8 (PR #2891, #2934), h5py (PR #2854, #2893), matplotlib (PR #2890) and fabio (PR #2930)
  • Use numpy.errstate to ignore warnings rather than the warnings module (PR #2920)

• Build, documentation and tests:

  • Added debian 11/Ubuntu 20.04 packaging (PR #2875)
  • Removed Python 2 tests and packaging (PR #2838, #2917)
  • Improved test environement (PR #2870) and documentation (PR #2872, #2894, #2937)

v0.12.0: 09/01/2020

Python 2.7 is no longer officially supported (even if tests pass and most of the library should work).

• silx view application:

  • Added: keep the same axes selection when changing dataset except for the stack view (PR #2701, #2780)
  • Added a Description column in the browsing tree to display NeXus title or name (PR #2804)
  • Added support of URL as filename (PR #2750)
  • Behavior changed: no longer lock HDF5 files by default, can be changed with --hdf5-file-locking option (PR #2861)

• silx.gui:

  • silx.gui.plot:

    • Added scatter plot regular and irregular grid visualization mode (PR #2810, #2815, #2820, #2824, #2831)
    • Added baseline argument to PlotWidget addCurve and addHistogram methods (PR #2715)
    • Added right axis support to PlotWidget marker items (PR #2744)
    • Added BoundingRect PlotWidget item (PR #2823)
    • Added more markers to PlotWidget items using symbols (PR #2792)
    • Improved and fixed PlotWidget and backends rendering and picking to guarantee rendering order of items (PR #2602, #2694, #2726, #2728, #2730, #2731, #2732, #2734, #2746, #2800, #2822, #2829, #2851, #2853)
    • Improved RegionOfInterest: Added sigItemChanged signal, renamed get|setLabel to get|setName (PR #2684, #2729, #2794, #2803, #2860)
    • Improved StackView: Allow to save dataset to HDF5 (PR #2813)

  • silx.gui.plot3d:

    • Added colormapped isosurface display to ComplexField3D (PR #2675)

  • Miscellaneous:

    • Added cividis colormap (PR #2763)
    • Added silx.gui.widgets.ColormapNameComboBox widget (PR #2814)
    • Added silx.gui.widgets.LegendIconWidget widget (PR #2783)
    • Added silx.gui.utils.blockSignals context manager (PR #2697, #2702)
    • Added silx.gui.utils.qtutils.getQEventName function (PR #2725)
    • Added silx.gui.colors.asQColor function (PR #2753)
    • Minor fixes (PR #2662, #2667, #2674, #2719, #2724, #2747, #2757, #2760, #2766, #2789, #2798, #2799, #2805, #2811, #2832, #2834, #2839, #2849, #2852, #2857, #2864, #2867)

• silx.opencl:

  • Added silx.opencl.sparse.CSR with support of different data types (PR #2671)
  • Improved support of different platforms like PoCL (PR #2669, #2698, #2806)
  • Moved non-OpenCL related utilities to silx.opencl.utils module (PR #2782)
  • Fixed silx.opencl.sinofilter.SinoFilter to avoid importing scikit-cuda (PR #2721)
  • Fixed kernel garbage collection (PR #2708)
  • Fixed silx.opencl.convolution.Convolution (PR #2781)

• silx.math/silx.image:

  • Added trilinear interpolator: silx.math.interpolate.interp3d (PR #2678)
  • Added silx.image.utils.gaussian_kernel function (PR #2782)
  • Improved silx.image.shapes.Polygon argument check (PR #2761)
  • Fixed and improved silx.math.fft with FFTW backend (PR #2751)
  • Fixed support of not finite data in fit manager (PR #2868)

• silx.io:

  • Added asarray=True argument to silx.io.dictdump.h5todict function (PR #2692, #2767)
  • Improved silx.io.utils.DataUrl (PR #2790)
  • Increased max number of motors in specfile (PR #2817)
  • Fixed data conversion when reading images with fabio (PR #2735)

• Build, documentation and tests:

  • Added Cython as a build dependency (PR #2795, #2807, #2808)
  • Added Debian 10 packaging (PR #2670, #2672, #2666, #2686, #2706)
  • Improved documentation (PR #2673, #2680, #2679, #2772, #2759, #2779, #2801, #2802, #2833, #2857, #2869)
  • Improved testing tools (PR #2704, #2796, #2818)
  • Improved bootstrap.py script (PR #2727, #2733)

v0.12.0 release candidate 0: 16/12/2019

First release candidate for v0.12.0